Armed Polite Society
Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: Ned Hamford on January 24, 2008, 03:47:29 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG6X-xtVask
Anyone else when watching this think, 'golly, if that guy is yours, it rocks'?
Unconfirmed, but according to one youtube message they only make 600 dollars a month, 7.2k a year....
I think that puts them well below the poverty line.
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Our legislators work for 140 days every other year (barring special sessions) and get paid $14,400 for a term, along with a per diem for when they're actually in session. Not high-stakes, but it's not exactly a full-time job (corruption, however, might be a 40-hour a week gig for Texas politicians).
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I stayed up late on the last night of the last session to watch the online feed as the Speaker (Tom Craddick) used some rather, uh, liberal interpretations of procedure to stall a party coup. It would be an exaggeration to say the man stuck his fingers in his ears and started yelling "I CAN'T HEAR YOU." But it would not be a great exaggeration.
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Well, at least we only let them get in session every other year. It could be worse. They could be in session all year every year.